Word: prided
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Argentina was the model. Ginboli, Scola, Oberto, Nocioni. NBA-caliber players, meshed together from the time they were toddlers, playing for national pride. In Athens in 2004, it was basketball that became the beautiful game for the Argentines, as they whipped passes no D could disrupt, and stroked threes with frightening ease. They flattened the U.S. with precision, and won gold. Maradona and Messi would be proud...
...history in the making--and a strong sense of community pride--explains why you hear many African Americans use the pronoun we to describe Obama's candidacy, as in "When we win ..." Those forces explain why older men who have never become attached to politicians wear hats emblazoned with Obama's name. And why you can find young men sporting hip-hop T shirts that bear the face of Obama instead of Biggie or Tupac. Obama has given millions of black Americans a reason to be proud. But he has also expanded their sense of the possible. And so, while...
...that would have been pushing it," says Kovack. Instead, he and Katz live in a 2,300-sq.-ft. (about 215 sq m) three-bedroom row house with stainless-steel appliances and a deck out back. They split the mortgage, the tax break, the cost of upkeep--and the pride of being homeowners a few years out of college...
...Djukanovic has played a leading role in most of his country's turbulent events over the past 20 years. With offhand pride, he says that his European colleagues now confide in him that Montenegro has become "boring." For diplomats, that is probably true. But for Peter Munk and the well-heeled visitors who may one day flock to the marina, hotels and cafés of Porto Montenegro, the thrill is yet to come...
...Intelligence agencies in other parts of the world drew similar conclusions awhile ago. The CIA hosted a gay-pride celebration for its staff and colleagues from the National Security Agency back in 2000. A French counterintelligence official says that "in nearly 20 years in this business, I've never heard sexual orientation mentioned at all in discussing recruitment policies or individuals, including people whose homosexuality is a matter of virtual public record...